gunnlaugur se briem is an icelandic designer with an interest in handwriting, type design and typography. he is on the advisory board of visible language, the research journal. his commercial typefaces are distributed by adobe and agfa monotype. his freeware designs include braille and a joined model alphabet for the teaching of italic handwriting. he recently set up print-on-demand publishing for his friends at the university of nevada.

„do we need more typefaces? not really. most of us can manage perfectly well with what we’ve got. hundred years ago, however, somebody could have asked this question and got the same answer. back then, the world already had caslon and garamond, baskerville and bodoni. how many more masterpieces were called for? i’m grateful that type designers kept working. in a century, they have created loveliness the world would be poorer without. and the customers, bless them, still want more. different flavors, a variety of emphasis, wood types, hobgoblins; everything seems accepted with delight. somebody has to make these people happy.”